{"id":472,"date":"2019-03-03T15:06:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T15:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adcosupplies.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2024-07-04T10:57:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T10:57:28","slug":"air-pollution-is-greatest-environmental-threat-to-health-says-world-health-organisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adcosupplies.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/03\/air-pollution-is-greatest-environmental-threat-to-health-says-world-health-organisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Air pollution is greatest environmental threat to health, says World Health Organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"article-meta\"><time datetime=\"2019-01-30\"><span class=\"month\">January<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"day\">30<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"year\">2019<\/span><\/time><\/aside>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Air pollution poses the greatest environmental threat to global health in 2019, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).<\/p>\n<h1>Marking the start of its new five-year strategic plan, the 13th General Program\u00a0of Work, the WHO said that nine out of ten people breathe polluted air every day, with ambient and household air pollution killing 7 million people prematurely every year.<\/h1>\n<p>The United Nations public health agency added that the problem is particularly prevalent in low-to-middle-income countries with these countries representing 90% of deaths due to air pollution.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The most vulnerable nations face escalating climate- and pollution-related risks,\u2019 the organisation said in its program. \u2018Within these nations, climate change disproportionately affects the poorest, the most marginalized, and women and children.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Air pollution is an increasingly serious risk factor for noncommunicable diseases. Reducing air pollution reduces emissions of short-lived climate pollutants such as black carbon, as well as longer-lived CO2.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The organisation explained that countries in Africa and Asia are vulnerable to\u00a0high volumes of emissions from industry, transport and agriculture, as well as dirty cookstoves and fuels at home.<\/p>\n<p>This leaves citizens of those countries particularly prone to suffering air pollution-related diseases such as cancer, strokes, heart and lung disease.<\/p>\n<p>Low-and middle-income countries of the Eastern Mediterranean region, Europe and the Americas form a lesser but still significant part of that 90% figure.<\/p>\n<p>The body added that burning fossil fuels \u2013 the primary cause of air pollution \u2013 is also a major contributor to climate change, which is expected to cause 250,000 additional deaths a year between 2030 and 2050.<\/p>\n<p>The UN\u00a0Framework Convention on Climate Change \u2013 the secretariat responsible for supporting the convention of the same name \u2013 tweeted that it was \u2018time for #ClimateAction\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Last year at the WHO\u2019s first-ever global conference on air pollution and health in Geneva, almost 900 countries and organisations made over 70 commitments to improve air quality.<\/p>\n<p>The UN will be holding its own Climate Summit this September in an attempt to strengthen climate action and ambition across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Other global health threats the WHO noted it would have to pay attention to this year include noncommunicable diseases, fragile and vulnerable settings and an expected global pandemic of flu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January\u00a030\u00a02019 Air pollution poses the greatest environmental threat to global health in 2019, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Marking the start of its new five-year strategic plan, the 13th General Program\u00a0of Work, the WHO said that nine out of ten people breathe polluted air every day, with ambient and household air pollution killing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adcosupplies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adcosupplies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adcosupplies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adcosupplies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adcosupplies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adcosupplies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.adcosupplies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/www.adcosupplies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adcosupplies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adcosupplies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adcosupplies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}